In existing method, research for landscape resource is driven by professional (or with the participation of local people at Tokenism level), and usually hinder local residents from reflecting their appreciations on the landscape resources in their own ways and eventually ends up with indistinguishable landscape planning. To avoid this, a profound understanding of what landscape they experience in their daily life and how they perceive it should be empirically analysed carefully. The purpose of this study is to apply walking behavior as a method to examine local residents’ subjective perceptions and consider its usability. The researcher walked the site(Sucheongri) with the residents, carrying a GPS device, taking photographs of the landscape objects they described, and recording the relevant explanations. After gathering photographs and explanations which represent the research participants’ individual subjective perception, the researcher analysed the explanation using open coding, based on grounded theory. By the analysis, 117 landscape objectives are identified and 18 reason factors for landscape perception were deduced from the explanation. Those factors could be classified as ‘positive feeling inducing’ and ‘negative feeling inducing’, and also as ‘personal emotion based’ and ‘community based emotion’. By comparison between feeling map by conventional method and feeing map by new method, usability of new method was empirically reveled. Walking behavior makes it easier for researcher to get more abundant data in quantitative aspect and profound understanding with affection of respondent by allowing them to ‘go beyond’ the perceptions they remember. Finally new method with walking gives professionals a contextual understanding of a place and more resident-oriented plans and management on sites.

The purpose of the present study is to examine the characteristics of intermediary organizations for rural tourism by analyzing how they are run, especially in Yangpyeong-gun and Icheon-si Nadri groups, and to further look for the desirable role they should play. Since the activities of these intermediary groups have not been accumulated enough to be able to be used for a study, grounded theory was adopted as deemed appropriate among other qualitative research approaches for this paper. Three main findings of the current research are as follows. First, the rural tourism intermediary organizations have characteristics that are leaning towards local villages more than visitors, although they are in the middle of a spectrum stretching between 'visitors to the green villages' on one end and the 'green villages' on the other end. Second, the intermediary groups work not just as a bridge among different green villages but also as a mediator, facilitator and a guide, noting that such roles can vary significantly depending on the level of competence of the groups themselves and the extent to which the government steps in. Third, the tourism intermediary organizations can contribute to local community-building, going beyond the boundaries of green village. They help to improve the quality of tour experience which leads to revitalization of local economy, and during the course of operating the intermediary groups, the community in the village can set up rules and resolve disputes and conflicts. Thus, the activities of the groups have the potential to create a local community by affecting not just at a village level but to a broader area where their operation is based on. Implications of this study are suggested in three ways. First, the paper looked at the interaction between rural tourism intermediary organizations and stakeholder in a comprehensive way with a qualitative research approach taken. Second, it identified the role and tasks of rural tourism intermediary organizations. Third, it is important to ensure that the tourism intermediary organizations play the local community-oriented role.

The purpose of this study is to identify effect in how urban garden is run by different operators in Korea, and consequently how it determines the level of community formation among urban garden users. Based on this analysis, the study is intended to present some points as to how to better manage urban garden. The operators are divided into three types: public, public-private partnership and private. The study interviewed each operating entity and surveyed garden users to gauge the extent to which communities are developed. After the ANOVA analysis and Scheffe post-hoc analysis, it was found that the levels of community formation among users of public and public-private partnership urban gardens were similar (so can be grouped together), whereas that of private urban garden users was higher (separated as another group). However, this study found no meaningful differences in the level of community formation among all types of urban garden in a local community. Some key suggestions are made as a result. First, as for the public and public-private partnership types of urban garden, it is necessary to foster leaders to build a community. Next, it is worth noting the potential of public-private partnership in realizing community revival through urban garden. The last suggestion is that, generally, the urban garden has only little influence on community formation in a local area so far, thus more practical consideration needs to be given to enhance the role of urban garden in a local community.

The purpose of this study is to identify characteristics of the landscape changes in Gwangjyu city and Icheon city, the suburban areas on the outskirts of the Seoul metropolitan area, by focusing on the causes of the urban sprawl and the resultant morphological characteristics of landscape degradation. Particular attention has been given to the ‘advantages for developing suburb including geographical proximity and land price’, ‘institutional regulation such as land-use regulation’ and ‘community solidarity’ as drivers for possible introduction of external factors. The types of landscape change were divided into three, after having on-the-ground research on eleven chosen towns and interviews with head of a village: Overwhelming Change, Separated and Small-Scale Change. It was found that, in general, the quality of landscape was best for the small-scale change type, followed by separated and overwhelming change types. While the types of landscape change are correlated with the geographical proximity, its relevance with land regulation is relatively weak. The study found that imposing a land-use regulation as a means to prevent changes in suburban village landscape may not be fully effective. Also it analyzed that villages could better manage with keen interest the surrounding landscape if there is a high degree of solidarity within the village community. Therefore, the sense of community could play an important complementary role to land-use regulation which does not suffice in itself to manage suburban landscape.

본 연구는 생태학 이론에 근거하여 외체계에 해당되는 학교주변의 자연환경을 살펴보고 개방성 및 접근성 정도에 따라 초등학생의 자연과의 연계성과 자아개념의 상관성을 알아보고자 시도되었다. 서울 및 경기도에 위치하는 초등학교 4곳에 재학 중인 5학년 359명을 대상으로 설문조사하였다. 초등학교 4곳은 모두 도심 속 국공립 초등학교로 학교 주변으로 개방성 및 접근성 정도가 다른 자연환경을 가지고 있다. A학교는 큰 산으로 둘러싸여 있고, B학교는 근접한 곳에 도시형 녹지공원이 위치하고, C학교는 뒤편으로 낮고 작은 산이 위치하고, D학교는 우리나라 문화유산인 궁으로 둘러싸여 있다. 측정도구로는 Mayer and Frantz(2004)의 자연과의 연계성과 Kelley(1998)의 자아개념을 사용하였다. 연구결과, 자연과의 연계성과 자아개념은 D학교에서 가장 높은 점수를 보였고(자연과의 연계성 3.35±.51, 자아개념 3.55±.46), 초등학교 집단 간에 통계적으로 유의한 점수차이를 보였다(자연과의 연계성 F=3.36*, 자아개념 F=9.25***). 자연과의 연계성과 자아개념간의 상관관계 분석에서는 B학교(r=.48***)와 C학교(r=.37***)에서 유의한 양의 상관관계를 보였고, 일반적 특성인 성별, 환경관련교육 경험여부, 거주지형태를 통제한 부분 상관관계에서도 비슷한 결과로 나타났다. 학교 구분없이 전체를 대상으로 분석했을 때 역시 유의한 양의 상관관계를 보였다(r=.34***). 자연환경의 개방성과 접근성 정도가 비교적 좋은 학교에 재학 중인 초등학생의 자연과의 연계성과 자아개념간 상관관계가 유의한 것으로 나타난 것은 비록 학교 내 자연환경은 아니지만 외체계로써 시각적 또는 물리적 접근이 가능한 학교 주변의 자연환경 역시 아동이 자연과 연계된다고 인식하고 궁극적으로 긍정적인 자아개념을 갖는데 도움을 준다고 할 수 있겠다. 학령기에 해당되는 초등학생의 경우 학교생활과 방과 후 활동을 통해 발달적 과업 성취와 건강증진을 도모할 수 있으므로 학교환경은 물론 학교주변 자연환경 역시 중요한 물리적 환경으로 작용할 수 있다. 초등학생의 건강증진을 위해 학교 주변 자연환경은 자연 개방성과 접근성을 고려한 생태학적 환경으로 조성되어야 할 것이다. 그러나, 본 연구는 외체계를 제외한 나머지 체계와 관련된 변수통제가 이루어지지 않았기 때문에 연구결과를 일반화하는데 제한점을 가지고 있다. 또한 편의추출에 의한 자료수집 역시 본 연구의 제한점이 될 수 있다. 초등학생의 자연과의 연계성과 자아개념 간의 관련성 또는 인과관계를 보다 정확하게 설명할 수 있도록 변수추가에 따른 다각적인 연구방법(종단적 연구, 중재연구, 다변량분석 등)을 제언하는 바이다.